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...team projects, students get a hands-on feel for the low-tech production practices of the era by making cheese graters in the tin shop and using looms to weave belts, under the supervision of museum staff. "It's one thing to sit at your desk and read about economic development and have a teacher give you notes," says Michael Trail, a senior who took the class last year. "It's a totally different thing to go into the village and see it firsthand...
...Grand Serail, an Ottoman-era palace that houses Lebanon's government, began its life as a garrison for Turkish soldiers. The buff limestone building was restored after this country's long civil war, and it still looms over downtown Beirut like a hilltop fortress, with its arabesque arches punctuating the fa?ade like so many cannon slits...
...Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech at the '84 Republican Convention, dryly derided Democrats as the "blame America first" party. In her later years, she remained a leading conservative voice and rallied for a formal declaration of war after 9/11. Of her Reagan-era positions she once explained, "We were concerned about the weakening of Western will...
Real Knowledge in the Google Era...
Call me a purist, but as Christmas approaches, it's worth noting that the ancient and traditional idea of a holiday did not include attempted murders over PlayStation 3 or CNN advisories on how to beat "holiday stress." According to anthropologists, human festivities--probably going back to the Paleolithic era--featured the universal ingredients of feasting, dancing, costuming, masking and/ or face painting, for days at a time. These things didn't happen indoors, within the family circle, but around bonfires, in the streets or on the "dancing grounds" of prehistoric civilizations. Holidays bonded whole communities together, not just families...